December, 1921 
17 
House & Garden 
THE JANUARY BUILDING NUMBER 
A T an exhibition held in New York last year 
an association of French chefs made a re¬ 
markable display of their culinary genius. 
There were dishes garnished with roses made from 
beets and crouching stags carved out of lard and 
a bewildering array of dishes so beautifully ar¬ 
ranged as to make a gourmet out of a hardened 
dyspeptic. But the greatest show of all was the 
pastry—a long table a hundred feet long, with 
plate after plate of little cakes, each plateful dif¬ 
ferent in color and shape and decoration. Stand¬ 
ing before that table one wondered what would 
ever happen if he ever really got his fill of French 
pastry! He’d probably never eat it again. 
That’s just the trouble with getting one’s fill of 
anything: the appetite for it disappears. That 
would be just the trouble if House & Garden 
could print in one issue every conceivable kind of 
house and room and garden that its hundred 
thousand readers could desire. 
But we do manage, by careful selection, to pre¬ 
sent qujte a variety in each number, and judi¬ 
cious readers, not desiring everything at once, 
enjoy the pleasant experience of having their 
appetites constantly whetted. 
The January Building Number, with which the 
printers will be struggling whilst you read this 
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This is a picturesque corner of one 
of the houses shown in the January 
issue 
December issue, contains a great variety of houses 
for a great variety of people. For those who 
dream of a country place remodeled from an old 
farm, there are pages on precisely this subject. 
For those who desire a stone house in the newest 
architectural style, there is a remarkable design 
by Mr. Bertram Goodhue. In the Group of 
Houses are small and medium size structures of 
stucco and brick and shingle. The prospective 
builder will be delighted by the article on win¬ 
dows and the display of unusual examples, by 
the clever arrangement of china closets and by 
the designs for kitchen entrance rooms. 
Decoration and gardening are equally necessary 
to the completed house and one should make 
plans for them at the same time the house is 
being planned. If your purse affords it, stretch 
the string to include a greenhouse so that your 
gardening need not stop with October frosts. 
Learn where your seeds come from, read up on 
flower and other planting novelties, study the 
small city garden plan for a hotbed, design that 
shrubbery border. All of these topics are con¬ 
sidered in next month’s pages. 
Ideas for decoration are equally abundant— 
color schemes, and a study of the use of black 
and a Little Portfolio of five charming rooms. 
Contents for December, 1921. Volume XL, No. Six 
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Cover Design by Ethel Franklin Betts Bains 
A House Set in the Woods. 
Griffin & Wyncoop, Architects 
Little French Gardens. 19 
Henri Cancale 
The Home of Mrs. Flora C. Zinn, Gordonsville, Va. 22 
Griffin & Wyncoop, Architects 
Empty Houses. 24 
In A Narrow Upper Hall. 25 
Pewter as Decoration. 26 
Emily Burbank 
The Home of Malcolm S. Mackay, Tenafly, N. J . 28 
Frank J. Forster, Architect 
The Interior of Old English Cottages. 30 
The Barometer in the House. 31 
B. Francis Dashiell 
Two Suburban Houses. 32 
W. Lawrence Bottomley, Architect 
If You Are Going to Build. 34 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
Gardens of Spain and Portugal. 36 
Thomas Walsh 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 37 
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Decorations in CamaIeu and Grisaille. 
Gardner Teall 
Table Arrangements for Fruit. 42 
A Group of Four Houses. 43 
The Dispute Over Wall Paper. 46 
Uses for Glazed Chintz. 47 
Agnes Foster Wright, Decorator 
Perennials for the Back of the Border. 48 
H. Stuart Ortloff 
The Charm of the Quiet House. 50 
Ethel R. Peyser 
House & Garden’s Christmas Gifts. 51 
Presents for the Dining Room. 52 
Pottery, Silver and Glass. S3 
Linen for the Hostess. 54 
To Put in Her Room . 55 
Gifts for A Man. 56 
Remembrances for Garden Lovers. 57 
To Put Under the Stocking. 58 
Toys That Are More Than Amusing. 59 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 60 
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be effected in less than one month. 
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